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- From: gnd@idaho.amdahl.com (Greg Darnell)
- Newsgroups: rec.equestrian
- Subject: Brags Re: Happy Solstice
- Message-ID: <10348@tetons.idaho.amdahl.com>
- Date: 21 Dec 92 20:15:44 GMT
- References: <1992Dec21.191012.738@cas.org>
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- Organization: Amdahl Corp., Rexburg, ID
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- In article <1992Dec21.191012.738@cas.org>, mlr21@cas.org (Mary Lee Raines) writes:
- >
- > Today is Solstice.
-
- and Solstice is happy - my wife's Trakehner gelding named Solstice,
- that is. Her Solstice finished 27th in the country out of 770 horses
- competing at 4th level dressage, with an average score of 62.788%, in
- his first full year of competing at 4th level. He also finished third
- at 4th level dressage in American Trakehner Association rankings.
-
- I am particularly proud of horse and rider since they got to that point
- in Idaho, where the nearest instructor is 3 hours away, so that they get
- at most two lessons per month, and my wife had never ridden above second
- level before moving here. I am also proud that they have reached this
- level without ever having a professional trainer on his back since being
- green broke.
-
- I just had to brag to an audience that would appreciate their
- accomplishment - most people here have never heard of dressage. I can
- only take credit for lungeing him when my wife is unable to work him,
- and for being driver, groom, maintenance man, groundskeeper, stall
- cleaner, etc. The rest was accomplished by their year-round hard work.
-
- Greg
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